Offshore Transmission (OFTO) Operations Manager

Offshore Transmission (OFTO) Operations Manager  

Department: OFTO - Renewables  

Location: Negotiable to the following locations - Leeds, London, Manchester, Glasgow

Equitix Management Services (EMS) has been delivering management services across the investment infrastructure sector since 2014. With experience spanning education, healthcare, social housing, utilities and government infrastructure, EMS has also established a growing presence in the renewable energy sector, supporting offshore transmission (OFTO), onshore and offshore wind, solar farms, and waste-to-energy assets.

Today, EMS manages more than £4bn of infrastructure assets across 135 contracts, supported by a multidisciplinary team of over 100 professionals. As our renewables portfolio continues to grow, we're looking for an Offshore Transmission (OFTO) Operations Manager to join our expanding team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing sector, with excellent prospects for professional development and career progression.

About the role

The primary focus of the role will be to provide support to the Senior Technical Manager where collective responsibility is assumed for ensuring that for OFTO Projects operational delivery obligations are appropriately discharged, and the relevant operational scope of services within the Management Services Agreement (MSA) effectively performed across projects during their operational phases.  

The role ensures compliance with contractual and technical requirements with a focus on optimising asset performance. 

As the Operations Manager you’ll play a crucial role in the following:  

• Supporting the Senior Technical Manager to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and project documentation and overseeing day to day operational performance of the transmission system assets. 

• Managing O&M service providers and ensuring their performance meets the contractual requirements. This will include monitoring KPIs and implementing performance improvements. 

• Promoting effective communication with all stakeholders, managing office communications and project records. 

Responsibilities of the role

• Act as the interface between O&M Service Provider/s and Senior Management on relevant operational matters. 

• Review O&M Service Provider/s reports, escalating deficiencies and non-compliance to Senior Management where necessary. 

• Support the co-ordination of planned and unplanned outages with a view to minimizing availability downtime and revenue losses and co-ordinate root cause analysis investigations and post repair lessons learnt sessions. 

• Ensure that the O&M Service Provider/s maintains robust contingency and business continuity plans. 

• Monitor and review subcontractor Health & Safety performance, audit compliance of O&M Service Provider/s and associated supply chain.  

• Promote a strong H&S culture in accordance with good industry practice and relevant legislation, ensure that the O&M Service Provider/s provide robust reporting and act on incidents in accordance with their contract. 

• Ensure that robust risk assessments are carried out and report on investigations and incidents that are raised

• Monitor and review O&M performance, support and prepare audit compliance of O&M Service Providers, support performance assessments and continuous improvements and ensure that asset management contractual deliverables are robust and fit for purpose. 

• Support the planning and delivery of asset condition assessments, on HV equipment and balance of plant equipment, both offshore and onshore. 

• Advise on performance and contractual matters to seek resolution, working collaboratively with Senior Technical and General Managers

• Prepare and issue reports and information to OFTO Boards and relevant stakeholders on a regular basis. 

• Assist with the management of the contractual variation process on behalf of the OFTO SPVs and manage operational budgets and forecasts. 

• Support the review and close-out of defects during the warranty period for new projects, working closely with multiple stakeholders including OEMs and ensure that the appropriate technical support is provided. 

• Maintain the individual project documentation libraries. 

The Ideal Candidate

• Engineering degree qualified (Electrical/Mechanical/Marine/Civil) or Technical Trade Qualified Engineering Technician with applicable experience. Degrees in other disciplines or equivalent qualifications will also be considered.

• Understanding of HV safety systems. 

• Experience of HV substation O&M, and transmission networks, ideally in the offshore sector, is desirable. 

• Ability to analyse asset performance data. 

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills for managing a diverse range of stakeholders. 

• Ability to understand complex issues and prioritise actions through successful resolutions. 

• Understanding of operational offshore environments and Health & Safety management. 

• Excellent communication skills, including a high standard of written reports

• A conscientious and thorough style with attention to detail. 

• Ability to prioritise own work and be highly effective without constant supervision. 

• Ability to precis technical information in reports for commercial audiences. 

• Comfortable travelling to and working at remote sites around the UK. 

• Full clean driving licence. 

Additional Ad Hoc Duties: 

• Carry out such additional duties as may be required by EMS from time to time. 

Benefits & role info

• Private medical healthcare with Vitality
• Scottish Widows Pension
• UNUM Death in Service Cover
• UNUM Help@Hand
• UNUM Group Income Protection Cover
• Corporate Eyecare with Specsavers
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Electric car scheme with Octopus (after probation)
• 26 days of annual leave + Bank holidays
• We operate with a hybrid work setup; 3 days in the office & 2 from home. There may be an expectation to be more present in the office during the initial period of employment.

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